When I was in school, if someone had outlived their usefulness, we normally sang a song for them:
Òjò ń rọ̀
Ṣe’ré ńnú’lé
Má wọ’nú òjò
Kí aṣọ rẹ̀
Má bà tutù
Kí òtútù
Má bà mú ẹ!
The song warns about an impending shower of shame that’s going to flood a person.
The Yoruba song is brutally franker than similar ones in the English language, like “Rain rain go away” and “Polly put the kettle on.”
It’s the same Yoruba who say, “t’árá’le ẹni bá ńjẹ kòkòrò búburú, tá bâ sọ fun, kúrú kẹrẹ ẹ̀ kò ní jẹ́ a sùn l’óru.”
That means if the neighbour is taking a poisonous substance and we fail to tell them, their agony won’t let us sleep in the early hours.
Let’s look at the above in terms of Mr Buhari’s regime which has performed tremendously.
We can all see the effects throughout the country in our banking halls, with preparations for elections by the “sick in the neck” INEC, in the insecurity in the land and in our pots of soup.
But, “báa wí f’ómọ ẹni, a gbó,” that is to be forewarned is to be fore harmed. And “a wí fún ni kó tó́ dá’ni, àgbà’jàkadì̀ ni” which means a person who has, through his actions made us realize how terrific he is has given us enough warning.
I remember that some of us warned Nigerians not to vote Buhari as president. Then, we were called wailers.
God is always on the side of Nigerians. He had made Buhari show us the stuff he’s made of when he and some others torpedoed Shagari’s government on December 31, 1983.
Nigerians saw hell!
He was eventually deposed through a palace coup on August 27, 1985.
But, if a person is meant to enjoy a slap in Sokoto and happens to be in far away Lagos, don’t be surprised if he boards a flight to Sokoto for his ration of slap.
That’s the case with Nigeria and Nigerians. We allowed ourselves to be hoodwinked into putting Buhari in the saddle again.
And, yet again!
Well, the knife has already cut the kid’s hand…that is the deed has already been done. But what Nigerians should be praying for is that another Buhari shouldn’t come to power again.
But, that depends on us!
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